I’m surprised that neither these questions nor those by U.S. Congress last month include a request to provide an exhaustive list of all types of data that Facebook has on its users, including data bought from third parties (e.g. credit score) or acquired via subsidiaries (e.g. browser history from that Vonavo VPN app). Or am I missing something, and is such a list available somewhere?
(edit: When I wrote this, this thread was a link to the following Twitter post, but of course that context was lost by Hacker News.)<p><a href="https://mobile.twitter.com/CommonsCMS/status/991302283920015361" rel="nofollow">https://mobile.twitter.com/CommonsCMS/status/991302283920015...</a><p>Almost certainly more useful, providing not just the tiny bit of understanding from this tweet and the full wording of the letter but also providing context and reasons and, well, actual information (Twitter is so damned useless), is this this article from the Parliament.<p><a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/digital-culture-media-and-sport-committee/news/fake-news-post-facebook-evidence-17-19/" rel="nofollow">https://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z...</a>
I'm not that familiar with the UK legal sphere - how and why is this an ultimatum and what happens if Zuckerberg doesn't appear before the committee?
If they want answers on legal proceedings and advertising, they need to invite the Chief counsel and Boz; Mark probably knows very little about either.
Would be pretty useful to see Mr. Zuckerberg in a parliamentary style debate (the motion, arguments for, arguments against, counterarguments on both sides, and a vote). For examples of how to conduct this style of debate a great podcast that follows this format is "Intelligence Squared". "The Motion" could be "FB is good for society".
"MPs found the majority of Mr Schroepfer’s answers about Facebook’s business practices, including their policies on the privacy and protection of users’ data and their relationship with Cambridge Analytica and associated companies, to be unsatisfactory."<p>"Mr Schroepfer, who was appearing as a witness in the Committee’s inquiry into Fake News, failed to answer fully on nearly 40 separate points, including.....<p>This is interesting, so are these like a rogue group of MP's who actually take their job seriously and think government should return to its non-theatre basis?